The relationship between features of the neighbourhood built environment and early child development was investigated ...

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most children report mental health and well-being, but the population distribution spanned the full range of possible scores on every construct. ...

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Childhood maltreatment and history of parental SSD are associated independently with poor early childhood social-emotional functioning ...

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The idea of the '30 million word gap' suggests families from more socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds engage in more verbal interactions with their child than disadvantaged families. Initial findings from the Language in Little Ones (LiLO) study up to 12 months showed no word gap between maternal education groups. ...

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Identify risk and protective factors for later childhood-onset and adolescent-onset mental health problems, and other adverse social outcomes ...

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Yasmin Adrienne Harman-Smith Gregory YHS adrienne.gregory@telethonkids.org.au BA, BHlthSc(Hons), PhD BSocSci, MPhil Head, Early Years Systems Evidence; Head, Tenders Support Unit Project Officer Yasmin.harman-smith@telethonkids.org.au ...

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These results show that a word gap related to maternal education is not apparent up to twelve months of age ...

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Tess Gregory TG BSc (Hons), PhD (Psychology) Senior Research Fellow +61 8 6375 6113 tess.gregory@telethonkids.org.au Senior Research Fellow Tess is a Senior Research Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute with a background in Psychology and ...

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Australia is the only developed country to consistently undertake a developmental census of its children nationwide. The repeated collection of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) has provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine the prevalence of developmental vulnerability across Australia's states and territories, the socio-economic distribution of developmental vulnerability across jurisdictions, and how these distributions might have changed over time. ...

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• 2020
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These challenges in measuring early childhood development are exacerbated when making comparisons across cultures ...

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This article continues evaluation of the construct validity of the Australian Early Development Census through comparison with linked data from a sample of 2216 4-5 year old children collected as part of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. ...

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This paper reports on a five-year project to measure student wellbeing across an education system using the Middle Years Development Instrument ...

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• 2019
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